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PORTFOLIO. No. 298,532. v Patented May 13, 1884.

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SIGNORS TO THEMSELVES AND JAMES D. SHIPMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTFOLIO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,532, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed February 23, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY S. WILLIAMs and EDWARD L. SHIPMAN, both residents of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Portfolio, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a top View of our improved portfolio. Fig. 2 is a top view showing the upper lid folded open. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same. i

This invention has for its object to provide a portfolio which shall also serve the purpose I 5 of a desk-pad or blotting-pad, of the kind used in counting-houses andoffices.

The invention consists,substantially,in making one leaf of a portfolio in form of a box having rigid vertical walls-on four sides, into which box the entire portfolio can be folded, the hinge part of the portfolio being on the inner side of one of said vertical walls.

In the drawings, the letter A represents a rectangular box which is open on top, and has beveled or rounded rigid upright walls on each of its four sides. This box contains the portfolio B, which is constructed to fill it, and which has its lower cover, a, rigidly attached to the bottom?) of the box A, so that really the bottom I) of the box is the lower cover of the portfolio, the part a being simply used, if

a separate part, for the purpose of connection. The hinge portion of this portfolio is on the inner side of one of the upright walls of the 3 5 box A, as shown in Fig. 3. Within the portfolio are or may be contained suitable leaves,

' ,9, containing printed matter, or blank leaves, if desired. Our idea is to fill the portfolio with, and bind into the same as part thereof,

40 printed leaves, giving such information as the person using the portfolio may be most likely to require. Thus a portfolio used in a railway-office is to contain, properly bound for convenient reference, the time-tables, guides, and instructions referring to the running of trains, schedules of freights, passengers traffic, &c.; and in counting-houses tables of interest and similar matter may be thus contained in and .bound into the portfolio. Upon the upper cover, (I, of the portfolio are affixed, at the corners thereof, small triangular pockets e 6, into which sheets f of blotting-paper are to be placed.

WVhen the portfolio is closed, as in Figs. 1 and 3, it will answer as a desk-pad or blotting-pad to write on, and at any time the writer may easily open it if he desires to consult any one of the leaves that are bound into and'part of the portfolio.

The leaves 9, which are contained within l the portfolio, may be secured in place by suitable fasteners, of which one kind is'illustrated at h in Fig. 2. The part (6 may be so attached :to the bottom of the box that it can be de tached from the box whenever desired.

What we claim is The box A, having four rigid upright walls, combined and permanently connected by hinge with the portfolio B, the hinge of which is located on the inner face of one of said upright walls, and into which papers are bound for reference, the upper cover of the portfolio constituting, also, the cover of the box, substantially as herein shown and described.

HENRY S. WILLIAMS. EDWARD L. SHIPMAN.

Witnesses: WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ, HARRY M. TURK. 

